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/lɪn/ · noun
(Scotland, Northern England, Wales) A waterfall or cataract (torrent of water running over a rocky bed), or a ravine down which such a waterfall rushes..
What seek we here / Amid this waste where desolation scowls, / And the red torrent, brawling down the linn, / Sings everlasting discord?
"For it's o'er the bank, and it's o'er the linn, "And it's up to the meadow ridge—" "Ay," quo' the Stumpie hirpling in,
And the roaring of the linn.
Hear! now, Yon linn's melodious thunder!
The pool is there — the true linn, in the original acceptance of the word — dark and bottomless.
The running of deep water in a linn.
There frisks the freckl'd finny tribe, In linns both wide and steep.
In the clear linn the trouts shuttled from stone and crevice.
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Linn means (Scotland, Northern England, Wales) A waterfall or cataract (torrent of water running over a rocky bed), or a ravine down which such a waterfall rushes..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
What seek we here / Amid this waste where desolation scowls, / And the red torrent, brawling down the linn, / Sings everlasting discord?
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